Empirical Study on Personality Trait Classification by Food Related Preferences

Human personality is a combination of the behavior, emotion, motivation and thinking pattern and has great impact on a person's life, health, and other related preferences. Food preferences provide rich information for studying personality of a person. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to predict human personality based on restaurant review on food and other related preferences. We choose the category to `judge/perceive' from the 4 categories of 16 personality traits. A data set is built from a survey of 100 people based on a questionnaire about their food related behavior along with standard personality traits. A classification algorithm is proposed to classify the participant's personality from his/her food preference and surrounding environment on a restaurant, using reinforcement…